Stock-book



' (No Model.)

P-. M. WOLSIEPFER.

STOGK BOOK.

No. 577,998. Patented Mar. 2, 189 7.

' ATT NEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

PHILIP M. WOLSIEFFER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STOCK-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,998, dated March 2, 1897.

Application filed November 28, 1896. Serial No. 613,788. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP IVLWOLSIEFFER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Books for Containing Postage-Stamps, Cards,&c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invent-ion relates to improvements in that class of blank books which are used by dealers and collectors in postage and other stamps for containing their collections, and has for its object to provide a cheap, durable, and eficient means for exhibiting the stock to customers without injuring the stamps by sticking them to the pages of a book by means of adhesive hinges or subjecting them to the mutilation of being creased and bent in turning the leaves of the book.

A further object is to provide a suitable means by which stamps may be transmitted through the mails or carried in the pocket without subjecting them to the dangers of being lost, mutilated or stuck together, and the protection being so light as to reduce postage to a minimum. 7

My invention consists of a stock-book containing any desired number of leaves folded as hereinafter described and of the most convenient size, each leaf containing a series of parallel pockets for the reception of.

stamps and bound so that the pockets fall on the left-hand pages when the book is open.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my left-page stock-book opened to show the arrangement of the pocket-bearing leaves for the reception of the stamps. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a leaf out ready to be formed into pockets. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the leaf folded, showing the arrangement of the pockets for the reception of the stamps; and Fig. et is a longitudinal section of the leaf on the line as w.

A represents a sheet of paper out at one side to form a series of strips B, which are provided with adhesive lower edges-b. The leaf is folded at a so that the stripsB lie flatly upon the body sheet A, being securely fastened by their adhesive lower edges and forming a series of horizontal parallel pock ets. The flap a is also provided with an adhesive inner surface and serves to strengthen the pockets at the inner side of the leaf and to provide a protecting binding edge. After the strips B and the end flaps a are firmly fastened in position the adhesive flap a is folded at a to overlap all of the strips B, se curing the pockets on the outer edge and providing a protecting edge to the leaf. A leaf is thus formed consisting of a series of pockets, as shown in Fig. 3, for the reception of stamps, thus affording a convenient means for the temporary arrangement of a collection, for the reception of duplicates, or for the exhibition of the dealers stock, and protecting the stamps against the injuries of adhesive contact and crushing, whether arranged for exhibition series or for transmission through the mails.

By referring to Fig. 1 it will be seen that these leaves are bound into a book with the pockets on the left-hand pages of the book. The advantage of this arrangement over the ordinary method of utilizing the right-hand page is obvious, for in books containing blocks or strips of stamps secured by one end only to the right-hand page the loose ends of the stamps flare away from the leaf and strike the adjoining leaf before the one to which they are affixed is laid flatly upon it, crushing and ruining the stamps. stock-book such injuries are reduced to a minimum, for stamps affixed to the left-hand page will lie closely against it and be supported by it when turned in the ordinary way from right to left. These pocket-bearing leaves are preferably bound into books, as specified, but they may be made of any convenient size for carrying stamps in the pocket or used singly for their transmission through the mails.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stock-book consisting of a series of leaves each leaf being made of a single sheetof paper comprising a body portion, A, and a series of strips, B, which are provided with adhesive lower edges, and which are folded In my and gummed flatly upon the body,portion,

forming a series of pockets, the leaves being bound so that their pocket-bearing sides fell upon the left side when the book is opened, substantially as shown and described.

2. A stock-b0ok, consisting of a series of 5 pocket-bearing leaves, bound so that the edges folded and flatly gumlned upon the body portion, and forming a series of pockets which are supported at the binding edge by the protecting-strip a and by the fold a,

at the outer edge, substantially as shown and 15 described.

PHILIP M. WOLSIEFFER. \Vitnesses:

RICHARD J POWERS, W. H. Woonn. 

